Cats or Dogs?

Australia has a national dog story. During the 1850's there was a great push inland to settle recently opened land and most traveled by bullock wagon. They took hampers of food with for refreshment on the long journey called a tuckerbox. One bullock driver got his wagon stuck in the nearby Murrumbidgee river. He left is dog to guard his food and went to get his bullocks out of the mud. Sadly the man slipped and drowned. But the dog continued to wait and refused to move away from the box until death. The locals were so impressed by the story of the faithful dog they built a monument "the dog on the tuckerbos" that is still there today.

Originally posted by elenos We get to know people as friends, but dogs are our real companions.

We get to know people as friends, but dogs are our real companions.

yeah it was a chow, my brother is now buying two of them one red one now and is hanging for a white one.

 Im philosophical about it, it had a very good long life and it was getting very old the last couple of years.

My dog died just recently after over 15 good years.

but my sister just bought one of these keeshonds puppies

a very cute and playful breed, should look like this when it grows up.






Edited by Leonidas - 11-Nov-2007 at 11:24

You hear these stories, thanks for checking it out. 

Like them both, they seem to put you in a different mood depending on which one is near you. I have heard that cats don't naturally purr in the wild but they put it on to get their way with us softhearted humans. 

I'm a dog guy myself. I have a lovely Brittany named Boudicca and she's much smarter than the cats I know.

A hard choice, but i went with dogs.